by Debra Mills | Jan 5, 2015 | Career Development, Job Hunting
Not many years ago, working for the care of the environment was the domain of a few crackpots and assorted boffins. Perceptions have changed and there exist a multitude of recognised qualifications and different kinds of environment jobs – in fact so many that the...
by Debra Mills | Jan 5, 2015 | Career Development, Job Hunting
A 2011 America Wave survey found that 2.5 per cent of Americans (or 6 million people) planned to relocate to another country for more than two years, and 10 per cent of those planned to leave the country for good. This was the largest number ever reported, and it...
by Debra Mills | Jan 5, 2015 | Career Development, Job Hunting, Uncategorized
Today’s jobs market: an overview of the current UK employment sector. Recent government figures in October 2010 put the unemployment rate of those aged 16+ at 29.3%. Couple this with the lack of vacancies reported available by job boards, recruitment agencies and...
by Debra Mills | Jan 5, 2015 | Career Development, Job Hunting
Alongside the headlines desponding of the economic slump and the diminishing number of graduate jobs, job-seeking graduates are bombarded by job-hunting clichés in the press. These include the importance of relevant work experience and transferable skills to...
by Debra Mills | Jan 5, 2015 | Career Development, Job Hunting
We’ve all heard the old adage ‘smile and the world smiles back at you’ and it’s quite true. I once knew of a man who went to a job interview and from the moment he got out of the car in the large parking lot in front of a multi-story large...